Aikawa Yoichi is a professor at the University of Nagano. He was born in Shibayama, where Ogawa Productions produced their Sanrizuka series of films. His main areas of research are contemporary Japanese history and historical sociology. Together with researchers and archivists in various fields, he is organising, preserving and researching the many materials left behind …
Yannick Bellon, director, editor and producer, tackled societal issues in her films.In all her films and documentaries, Yannick Bellon has cast a lucid eye on those who set out to regain their dignity. She pursued her career by producing her own films, often rejected by the profession, independently and with great difficulty, and by being …
Erika Runge discovered her interest in social issues through her involvement in student movements. After graduating from university, she continued her political involvement. She conducted interviews which she compiled in her book Bottroper Protokolle. In it we discover frank opinions on working conditions, the image of women, but also on sex and politics. She developed …
Robert Kramer (New York City, 1930 – 1999) was heavily involved in political activism as a college student, having worked first as a community organizer in Newark, and then as a reporter in Latin America. He helped to found Newsreel, an underground media collective which produced several films about radical political subjects and the anti-war movement. It was …
Philip Spinelli was an american filmmaker and actor. He is best known for his work in Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977), Hovering Over the Water (1986) and Eyes of Fire (1983).
Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, also, a founding member of the Palestine Film Institute, that focus on supporting, promoting, and preserving Palestinian …
Filmmaker and video artist Avi Mograbi was born in 1956 in Tel Aviv, where he lives and works. He grew up in a family of European and Arab Jewish emigrants – his grandfather, who came from Damascus, founded one of the first cinemas in Tel Aviv – in a Zionist environment from which he emancipated …
Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank. As an activist and documentary director, he is fighting against Israel’s mass expulsion of his community.
Hamdan Ballal is a photographer and farmer from Susya in the West Bank and has worked as a researcher for several human rights groups opposed to the Israeli occupation.